The 20-year-old man, who police believe shot and killed an innocent driver in southwest Houston on Thursday and then carjacked another driver to get away, cut a deal to avoid prison two years ago and ...

The family of Jaleen Anderson, a 29-year-old man who died at a private Louisiana jail facility after being outsourced from ...

The Harris County Sheriff's Office is warning residents about a new scam targeting the Houston area. Some scammers are ...

Corey Pritchett Jr, 24, was being held at the Harris County Jail on $200,000 bond as of Friday ... Here's which movie theater is getting it. Texas child care organization to lay off over 300 ...

The program helped Harris County reduce its staff-to-prisoner ratios. In September, the jail was declared in compliance with state guidelines by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

One in ten of the most violent prisoners being held in a jail in Texas’ most populous county are illegal migrants earmarked for deportation by federal immigration authorities, according to a new ...

For nearly two years, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, a state regulated agency, has held Harris County Jail in violation of upholding minimum safety standards, including an unacceptable ...

The head of the governing body that oversees Harris County, Texas, urged leaders not to malign immigrants over the murder of a 12-year-old girl found strangled to death last week. Harris County ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- As ABC13 monitors the situation at the Harris County Jail, the Jail Standards Commission held its quarterly meeting in Austin on Thursday, and the update is not good.

"How many more individuals have to die in the Harris County Jail before we say enough is enough." The Texas Rangers have conducted their investigation into Lee's death and filed their report with ...

April 28 (UPI) --Jerry Raynes, the second of four escaped Mississippi jail inmates ... ongoing," Hinds County, Mississippi Sheriff Tyree Jones said on Twitter. Harris County, Texas, Sheriff ...

One of the four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last weekend was apprehended in Texas on Thursday ... "(U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force), Harris County Sheriff's Office and Spring ...